Moose Blues

33cl bottle shared by Joes. Nice clear red color, small off-white head that disappears quickly. Smell is a weird mix of malts, lightly alcohol, wood, sweetness, flowers. Taste malts, sourness, lightly alcohol, some wood. Medium carbo, low to medium body.

Bottle thx to joes. Hazy nutbrown/copper colour with no head. Smells cherry, glue, sourish, alcohol, sharp. Tastes sour, cherry, wood, some chocolate. Not sure if the beer is still fresh or not, bottle says it is though. Low carbo, medium body.

Bottle courtesy of Alex, thanks! Hazy dark amber color, cream colored head, nice lacing. Aroma of candied butterscotch. Taste starts sweet, caramel, then slightly sour butterscotch. Interesting stuff.

Bottle sample @ 5de Brugs Bier festival. Ambrée, col beige crémeux. Arôme est malté et caramel pointe de café qui se donne plus en présence une fois que la bière se réchauffe. En bouche, malt torréfié, léger grillé, levure laissant un profile épicé et herbacé. Caramel sur la fin, fruits noirs/rouges avec un profile sec houblonné et toujours sur la fin ce côté leger de malt chocolaté voire café, le tout se mélange avec une pointe aigre venant peut être de la canneberge.

bottle sampled @ Bruges Beer Festival 2012: dark red with a touch of ruby beer, tanned head, smells like sweet malts, hint caramel, spices, slightly fruitiness/berries to it, taste is sweet malts with a slightly vinous character to it, a fruitiness which mostly translates into wild red berries which is where the slight sourness probably comes from, hint of chocolate somewhere in the back of the malt, touch of bitterness with some spices, slightly above medium body, creamy, med. carb. – still digging this new brewery

Medium to good, rather stable creamy yellowish head over fully hazy russet beer. Rather perfumed nose, bit of rosewater, maybe coriander, brown candi sugar. Quite bitterish at first, earthy, leafy & undergrowth notes; bit of black chocolate, lots of melanoidins. Yeasty, and the background consists of sweetish, treacle-like malts, mounting with temperature. Rather well-bodied, with a creamy texture, but not much of an aftertaste. I don’t get the ’red fruit’ (is this supposed to contain cranberries?), nor the aniseed, Tim. It’s rather Walloon in character to me.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Verzet Moose Blues (by Brouwerij 't Verzet):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

5/12/2011 75cl bottle @ home - BB: 10/13 (2011-692)

Little cloudy red brown to rust coloured beer, creamy yellowish head, unstable, adhesive with nice lacing. Aroma: lots of star anise, bit sweet, some caramel. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: star anise again, and I'm not a fan of star anise. :( A little sweet, carbon sour, some caramel, hop bitterness. Aftertaste: little sour, aniseed, orange peel, little bitter. A bit overdone on the spices, would have preferred a more balanced beer, maybe with a plunge of mocha or even a dash of sweet caramel.